Writer’s Desk: Don’t Worry About Being Original

All writers want to stand out. How do you make a name otherwise? But it’s also easy to tie yourself up in knots worrying about it. Poet Derek Walcott, who was never anything but original, dismissed such worries in his essay “The Muse of History“: We know that the great poets have no wish to …

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